Ouch. It was a serious question, if someone were to pay 20k to malaria coalition, that’s 4 lives on expectation. Seems reasonable for the loss to our community.
Could someone explain why asking how much we should charge to press the button is taboo?
The appropriate response to someone with the launch codes to a real nuke suggesting we sell them to terrorists is to shoot them, not to wait to see if the terrorists could pay a lot of money; by comparison a downvote seems very apt!
I mean it depends how much the terrorists are going to pay compared to the value of the damage. In the real world that value is unthinkably high, here, not so much.
Ouch. It was a serious question, if someone were to pay 20k to malaria coalition, that’s 4 lives on expectation. Seems reasonable for the loss to our community.
Could someone explain why asking how much we should charge to press the button is taboo?
It could be seen as uncooperative or pushing things too far, like “for what value of donations should an Effective Altruist let me punch them?”
Hmm, I guess I find it strange. To me, asking this question is part of taking this ritual seriously. IE how valuable is this ritual to maintain?
The appropriate response to someone with the launch codes to a real nuke suggesting we sell them to terrorists is to shoot them, not to wait to see if the terrorists could pay a lot of money; by comparison a downvote seems very apt!
I mean it depends how much the terrorists are going to pay compared to the value of the damage. In the real world that value is unthinkably high, here, not so much.